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a powerful typhoon has hit the philippines and is projected to sweep across the island of luzon, where the capital manila is located. super typhoon noru made landfall within the last couple of hours and could bring winds of up to 200 km/h. our weather forecaster helen willetts has more. hello. this large mass of cloud is a strong, powerful typhoon called noru, which has been throwing rain across the philippines for at least the last 2a hours, but has been developing intensively into that powerful storm, so a life threatening storm because it has got destructive winds, and it will give extreme amounts of rainfall, potentially catastrophic flooding and a large storm surge. once it moves out into the south china sea s open waters, expected to still be a typhoon, it could well intensify again and head into parts of vietnam, threaten china with some heavy rain and also give rains to thailand, cambodia and laos where it has been very wet already because of low pressure. so some des
thank about 20 survivors being treated in local hospitals. now on bbc news, the great indian cricket dream: the women in blue, tracing the evolution of the indian women s cricket team from humble beginnings in the 1970s to twice reaching the world cup final. i was the first female bowler, was number one, it s a really enjoyed that moment because i got that golden armband also but at the same time, a lot of responsibility. responsibility. when it comes to cricket. responsibility. when it comes to cricket, india responsibility. when it comes to cricket, india is to cricket, india is unstoppable.- to cricket, india is unstoppable. to cricket, india is unstouable. ., , unstoppable. i m not being facetious unstoppable. i m not being facetious when unstoppable. i m not being facetious when i unstoppable. i m not being facetious when i say - unstoppable. i m not being facetious when i say this i unstoppable. i m not being. facetious when i say this but unstoppable. i m
Professionally and they want to represent the country. but at the same time, we know that women s side will happen. i think that would be the ice on the cake, because that s going to be definitely improve women s cricket standard, women s cricket facilities. we have connections to academies all over the country, we ve got our academies, and we have more and more girls coming through, wanting to play, more and more women s cricket coming to play, and so there s some real stars coming through, and they are getting better development, which means they re going to be better hitters, they re going to be faster bowlers, it s going to be a more exciting product. so, yes, we re on a pathway. women s ipl will massively help take it to another level, and then, i think, you ll see all of those stories coming through of girls across india sort of going against the norm to play this amazing sport and succeed in it. with the women s ipl announced next year, clearly, things will change big time for w
Ipl or should i say when the women s ipl happens it will reach another level. the way team has transformed, it definitely shows that there is a lot of scope of forming a very strong side in the coming years. the skill levels are just fascinating when you see that. it s like, wow. i mean, how did we miss all this all these years? definitely the dream hasjust begun. - the dream is to win - the world cup for india. when you talk about cricket in india, i think the first- city that comes to mind is mumbai, you know? i there are so many cricketersi who have come up from here and you know, it has a legacy. of producing amazing cricketers and i am one of them. but, yeah, it s so nice to see i whichever the street you go on, you ll find someone out there with a bat or. i it s very creative, you know? they make anything the stumps. cricket has a huge influence